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The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...

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Dickens’s Christmas novella is often read as a reassuring parable about our ability to change — but the whole point of Scrooge’s ghostly visitations is how dramatically his moral life needs to be ...

James Cameron's return to Pandora brings us on an even more expansive exploration of the alien planet and the Na'vi people.

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India is stepping up efforts to prepare for the upcoming influenza season. Health authorities and the WHO are reviewing ...

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